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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67922</law_id><section_number>32.1-23.5</section_number><catch_line>Reporting of certain data regarding financial assistance</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">Administration Generally</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Department of Health and State Health Commissioner</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall report annually by November 1 to the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Health and Human Services and the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Education and Health regarding data collected pursuant to subsection F of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Providers to submit data; civil penalty" href="/32.1-276.5/">32.1-276.5</a>, including the value of (i) the amount of charity care, discounted care, or other financial assistance provided by each hospital under its financial assistance policy that is required to be reported in accordance with subsection F of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Providers to submit data; civil penalty" href="/32.1-276.5/">32.1-276.5</a> and (ii) the amount of uncollected bad debt, including any uncollected bad debt from payment plans entered into in accordance with subsection C of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Hospital emergency department CPT code data reporting" href="/32.1-137.09/">32.1-137.09</a>.</p></section></text><history>2022, cc. 678, 679.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
